English

Read carefully below; there are two options for reading in each class.

OPTION A: The first option is for you reading to be done over the summer and thus you will be able to start off with an advantageous set of knowledge going into your English classroom.

OPTION B: Students that cannot complete the reading over the summer will have an alternative assignment at the beginning of the school year that will likely require homework and accelerated reading paired with the class work.

All text chosen is available free online and those links are provided herein.

A non-fiction book about another place in our world that is unfamiliar to you. Your non-fiction book could be a memoir, auto-biography, biography, informational text, or literary non-fiction. For example, this could be a book about the living conditions in various parts of India, the Himalayan monks, fashion in Paris, a memoir of an immigrant, or the use of alternative energy in Denmark. Feel free to explore all topics and regions as your select your book.

Read the novel, “1984” by George Orwell

Be aware that you will be writing a dialectical journal over the book at the beginning of the school year

Read the Play “Hamlet” by William Shakespeare (Be aware that we will read the NO FEAR SHAKESPEARE VERSION, but you are welcome to read from either the Elizabethan/original language, from the modern version, or a combination of both) the link below allows you to read it in any version to aid in understanding of some of the more difficult passages, feel free to explore its benefits.